caughtinanetwork | [video] log 1

[A flurry of blurred images whip across the screen as the SFC's camera whirls around in a slender pair of hands, finally settling on the worn face of a young man, about 25 in appearance. His eyes are scanning something above the edge of the phone as he surveys his surroundings, his wet clothes giving off an attractive squelch as he moves. He brushes his dripping bangs off his forehead before turning his attention to the communicator.]

Video log one. Date... [Shinra lifts up his wrist and sighs at his now-useless waterlogged watch. That was a gift from Celty, too. He'd have to find a replacement once he got out of this place...if he got out of this place.] Let's go with day one.

I'm trapped in some kind of static bathysphere with no connection to the surface world. While my phone was damaged beyond repair at some point between being in Ikebukuro and...wherever this is, I found this star-shaped cell phone in my pocket that has some kind of connectivity to the rest of this place. I also still have my scalpel, which was nice of whoever landed me here. [He pulls the slim surgical tool out of his pocket and smiles fondly at it.]

If there's anyone out there who knows anything at all about the Black Rider, please contact me as soon as possible. It's of the utmost importance that I find out if she's okay or not.

...Additionally, if anyone knows where I am, [He turns the communicator and rotates in a slow circle, panning across several buildings and the shadowy outline of the Great Lamufao.] I'd appreciate the intel.

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[Yikes! Already trying to catch up to every little detail... She pats him on the head. Like an excited puppy.]

I've been fine, just waited to see whether I would ever go home... or if you would show up.|

[The one she has spoken to the most has been Izaya. So, that's a big fat NO.
Honestly, there's this swelling feeling of "I told you so" in her head right now. How dare he try to fill her with doubts about--ugh. Shaking that thought cloud away.]

[He lets out a bright chuckle as Celty pets his head. She's been waiting for him! What an endlessly perfect creature she is.]

Well, I'm here now! And judging from the way things have been going, it doesn't look like we'll be making a return trip to Ikebukuro anytime soon.

[And maybe Celty can finally stop looking for her head and focus on her life with him. After all, there's no conceivable way it could have ended up in a place like this, right...?]

[She shakes her head.

Nope, it doesn't seem that way at all... Hopefully this place isn't cruel enough to separate the two just as they reunite.
And she has lingered in that thought before--But it's been long since that familiar "feeling" haunted her. Her head.

It isn't here. But she's... actually okay with that.]

Well, with our time here, we shouldn't hog Shizuo's home.|

[A new city - no, not even - a new universe where he and Celty are together, finally free from the shackles of his deceit and her yearning for her head.
Finally free to be happy with each other. Twenty years of pining and not-so-subtle hint-dropping, twenty years of a love bordering obsession, and he might have finally gained what he's wanted for so long: a life where Celty doesn't have her head to think about before him.
Maybe this place isn't so bad, after all.]

Ah, you're probably right. I'm sure he isn't too thrilled about us driving him out of his own house.

[His eyes dart towards the front door with a sheepish chuckle. It's probably better not to push their luck with Shizuo too much; he still has a few years before he's due for a reminder of how easily the bartender can break down a door.]

Did you have somewhere you wanted to go?

[Celty hoped Shinra wouldn't distract himself in her attention, as nearly impossible as it sounds. Vatheon is an odd place and she has the gut feeling another curse is around the corner. Waiting. That probably won't be a very enjoyable experience.

Unless he would actually enjoy that kind of thing.]

I'll take you back to my place.| [She causally straightens her helmet and fiddles with her phone. Impersonal like behavior, yes, but she truly is excited and raring to go. Yet, she doesn't seem to notice the smoke from crawling out out helmet. It begins to gather into a large cloud over her head.

Oh, geez.]

Our place, I mean. Are you ready to go?|

[Shinra watches with a wry smile as smoky wisps begin to slip past the edges of Celty's helmet, wafting upwards with nervous, dancing movements. Try as she might to remain casual -- and heavens knows, it's adorable how hard she tries -- there's really no way for her to keep her true feelings a secret from Shinra; he knows her 'face' far too well.]

'Ready to go'? My sole purpose for existing has been, and always will be, to accompany you to the ends of the earth if you so desire. Lead the way and I will loyally follow without a second thought!

[Chivalrous words aside, an uplifting sensation fills Shinra's chest at the mention of their place. He'd almost begun to fear that, with all the time apart, she'd have found a better roommate to replace him.
How foolish of him - there's no way a love as strong as theirs could have been dampened by time or distance!]

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